Hey capri community! I would love to hear some book recs from you! Setting: prefer fantasy/otherworldly/period over the real current world.
Gender doesn't really matter, there can be romance and spice (slowburn is always fun). Can have darker topics if done well.
Most importantly I really want to feel what the characters experience. Can be love/deep connection, fear/panic or whatever emotion but I want to gasp or laugh when reading… It's really hard to describe.
Pacat gave all that to me, but it's hard to find in other books so far. (Freya's A Marvellous Light was one of the ones that managed to do it, the second book less so tho, haven't read the third yet.)
So if anyone has a recommendation, please drop it in the comments. 👉👈
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EDIT: OMG thank you so much for all the recommendations! I compiled them in alphabetical order, so other people can refer to the list in case they need a recommendation as well:
(☑ read / ☐ not yet read /📜 currently reading)
☐ A Ballad for slayers & Monsters - Rita A Rubin
☐ A bone in his teeth - Kellen Graves
☐ A Gentleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel - KJ Charles
☐ A Master of Djinn - P. Djeli Clark
☐ A Spear cuts through water - Simon Jimenez
☐ A Strange and Stubborn Endurance - Foz Meadows
☐ A taste of Gold and Iron - Alexandria Rowland
☐ All for the game - Nora Sakavic
☐ Angels & man - Nicolás Rafael
☐ Angels before man - Nicolás Rafael
☐ Ballad of Sword and Wine: Qiang Jin Jiu -Tang Jiu Qing
☐ Beacon Hill Sorcerer series -Sheena Jolie
☐ Betrothed to the Emperor - Kai Butler
☐ Blood Over Bright Haven - M. L. Wang
☐ Crier's War - Nina Varela
☐ Glitterland - Alexis Hall
☐ Heaven Official's Blessing Mo Xiang Tong Xiu
☐ Iron Breakers Trilogy - Zaya Feli
☐ Long Live Evil - Sarah Rees Brennan
☐ Lymond Chronicles - Dorothy Dunnett
☐ Iron Widow - Xiran Jay Zhao
☐ Murderbot Series - Martha Wells
☐ Nightrunner Series - Lynn Flewelling
☐ of Knights and Books - Rita A Rubin
☐ Parasol Protectorate - Gail Carriger
☑ Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon
☐ Realm of the Elderlings/Farseer Trilogy - Robin Hobb
☐ Rose of the Prophet Cycle - Margret Weis/Tracy Hickmann
☐ Scum villain's self saving system - Mo Xiang Tong Xiu
☐ Shades of Magic -V.E. Schwab
☐ Silver Blood - TL Morgan
☐ Simon Snow Trilogy - Rainbow Rowell
☐ Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo
☐ Skulduggery pleasant - Derek Handy
☑ Something Human - AJ Demas
☑ Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
☐ Song of the bullrider - Alex "Muun" Singer
☐ Swordcrossed -Freya Marske
☐ Sword Dance -A.J. Demas
☐ The Alexander Trilogy - Mary Renault
☐ The Binding - Bridget Collins
☐ The Crossroads trilogy - Kate Elliott
☑ The Darkness Outside Us - Eliot Schrefer
☐ The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison
☐ The Grandmaster of demonic cultivation (Mo Dao Zu Shi) - Mo Xiang Tong Xiu
☑ The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue - Mackenzi Lee
☐ The Hair Carpet Weavers Andreas Eschenbach
☐ The Hands of the Emperor - Victoria Goddard
☐ The husky and his white cat - Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou (check TW)
☐ The Hyperion Cantos - Dan Simmons
☑ The Last Binding Trilogy - Freya Marske
☐ The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
☐ The Magpie Ballads- Vale Aida
☐ The Magpie Lord Series- Kj Charles
☐ The Prince's Psalm - Eric Shaw Quinn
☐ The Queen's thief - Megan Whalen Turner
☐ The Queer Principles of Kitt Webb - Cat Sebastian
☐ The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater
☑ The Rifter Series - Ginn Hale
☐ The Scottish Boy - Alex de Campi
☑ The Tarot Sequence Series - K.D. Edwards (check TW)
☐ The Traitor Baru Cormorant -Seth Dickinson
☐ The Winner's Curse - Marie Rutkoski
☐ This will be fun - E.B. Asher
☐ Tiger, Tiger - Petra Erika Nordlund (Webcomic)
☐ Will Darling Adventures - KJ Charles
☑ Winter’s orbit - Everina Maxwell
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